#tyrant

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ↗

— William Penn

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ↗

— Plato

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You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. ↗

— Richard Pryor

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

— George Santayana

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